Justin Morgan Daly will undergo another competency evaluation after his lawyer and a prosecutor agreed Thursday that such an evaluation should be done.

An evaluator from Western State Hospital will come to the Skagit County Community Justice Center within the next few weeks to determine whether Daly understands the murder charge he’s facing and whether he is capable to assist in his defense.

Daly is accused of bludgeoning his landlord, 52-year-old Louis Auriemma, with a baseball bat and cutting the man’s head with a chain saw on Oct. 8, 2012.

Daly is facing a second-degree murder charge.

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